Finance at the Jobsite

"Why are we the bank for everybody?" That question sits behind every turnaround Joseph Patti has led. Joseph is CFO of Restani Construction Corp., a New York City heavy civil contractor. He is a CPA and CCIFP who has worked in construction finance since 1990, and a longtime CFMA leader, including past president of the New Jersey Chapter. In this episode he shares the cash, forecasting, a...

Eric Pratt grew up counting inventory in his family's 100-year-old power tools and machinery business, learning bookkeeping from his grandmother while the rest of his family worked the trades. He spent years selling virtual card and e-payments before joining Viewpoint in 2020, right as they rolled out an e-payments program for Spectrum with barely twenty live customers. Six years later he sits...

Brandon Kyse started as a framer at fifteen, studied construction management at Cal Poly, spent seven years in solar, and then thirteen years at RDO Equipment — one of the largest John Deere dealers in the world — running divisions up to $400 million. On this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, he sits down with Rishi Srivastava to unpack what he learned from the dealer seat and what it means for t...

Caryl Coronis, CPA, CCIFP, has served CFMA at every level — Houston chapter president, co-founder of the resurrected Lone Star Conference, and most recently national chair. But her construction finance career started with a surety agent telling her, "You're going to have to do percent complete," and an invitation to a chapter meeting. In this episode, Caryl joins Rishi Srivastava to...

Most contractors will tell you they run at 25%, 30%, even 40% gross margin. Almost none of them are right. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, host Rishi Srivastava sits down with Luke Boyenger — former EY auditor turned fractional CFO, running a firm built specifically for construction companies. Luke's family manufacturing business went bankrupt in the 2008 crisis, and the question &q...

What actually tells you whether a construction company is healthy? For Josh Bohlke, CFO of Columbia River Electric Maintenance, the answer goes far beyond the P&L. After moving from commercial banking into the CFO seat at a $30–40 million electrical contractor, Josh saw firsthand how different construction finance looks from inside the business. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite , we d...

Matt Hunter, CPA didn't take a straight line into construction finance. He was out on his own at 16, sitting in a classroom at North Georgia Military College when the second plane hit on 9/11, and deployed to Afghanistan within weeks. Twenty-one years later he retired as an Army major in military intelligence — and only came to accounting in his thirties. In this episode of Finance at the Jobs...

Construction companies don't blink at a $500,000 backhoe. They agonize over a $50,000 software line item. Kris Lengieza, Field COO at Procore Technologies, thinks that mental model is about to break — and that the shift starts when CFOs stop treating AI agents as IT spend and start treating them as labor. Rishi and Kris get into the CFO conversation that made it click: "I trust my PMs to...

Every contractor says they're best in class — but until you put your numbers on paper, you haven't proven it. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi sits down with Arleen Barningham, Product & Data Analytics Manager at CFMA, and Rhett Ennis, CPA, Shareholder at CBIZ CPAs and Pacific Northwest Construction Practice Group Leader, to break down CFMA's Financial Benchmarker —...

Tanmaya "TK" Kala spent 13 years at DPR Construction rising to Project Executive on billion-dollar healthcare projects — including OSHPD hospital builds where clients demanded actual-cost documentation down to the square foot of drywall. Now he's Co-Founder & COO of MeltPlan, building AI tools for pre-construction. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, TK breaks down why the...

Everyone says AI agents are about to run your back office unattended. The research — and a day in the life of a construction finance software founder — says something more useful and a lot more specific. In this solo episode of Finance at the Jobsite, host Rishi Srivastava (founder of Beiing Human) gives the honest version of where AI agents genuinely help in construction accounting and where they...

What does a modern construction finance stack actually look like — and in what order should you build it? Rishi Srivastava sits down with Rory Carlson, CCIFP, VP of Accounting & Finance at Adjustable Concrete Construction (and a CFMA 2022 Rising Star), for a practical walk through 15+ years of construction finance. Rory shares the lessons behind two successful expense-management implementation...

How does a professional drummer who toured with Heart and mixed for U2 end up becoming the Validation Institute's 2025 Benefits Advisor of the Year? In this episode, Rishi sits down with Donovan Pyle — CEO of Health Compass Consulting and author of Fixing Healthcare — to expose why healthcare has become the fastest-growing financial risk on construction P&Ls, and what CFOs can actually do...

Liens, delay claims, and the quiet margin levers most contractors leave on the table. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Ryan Heeth — a construction attorney whose career runs from purchasing agent at Gilbane, to in-house counsel for major New York City builders, to his current seat as Director of Development & Construction at Pratt & Co Capital in t...

Most contractors stay on the same ERP for 10–20 years — and when they finally switch, the technology is rarely the hardest part. The people are. In this episode, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Cathy Wendt, who has spent nearly 30 years helping construction companies select, implement, and migrate accounting systems. Cathy breaks down the entire ERP journey: how to know if you've actually outg...

What does it take to go from construction trial lawyer to Chief Legal Officer of a billion-dollar electrical contractor — and what do you learn about construction from inside the courtroom that most executives never see? Brent Zimmerman knows. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Brent Zimmerman — Chief Legal Officer and Assistant Secretary of Miller Electric...

Michael McKeon thought crossing from public accounting into construction operations would be a long, arduous slog. Instead, he discovered something most PMs don't admit out loud: roughly half of running a construction project is accounting. On this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, the Nordby Construction project manager joins Rishi to unpack how thinking in dollars and cents changes the way...

After 30 years implementing construction software, Emanuel Falaguerra has watched 55–75% of projects miss their objectives. The reason isn't the software. It's what's happening before the software. Construction has more tools than ever and somehow still runs on chaos. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Emanuel Falaguerra — a 20+ year veteran of c...

What does it take to walk away from 7 years on active oil & gas pipelines, get told "no" by 7 or 8 banks, eat a $36K IRS bill you didn't see coming, and still grow a brand-new utility-scale renewables contractor 116% year over year? Veronica Whitesell knows. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Veronica Whitesell — President of Dynamite R&amp...

What does it take to turn a courtroom nightmare into 14 U.S. patents and three category-defining construction tech companies? Peter Lasensky knows. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite, Rishi Srivastava sits down with Peter Lasensky — co-founder and CEO of Command Post, founder of NoteVault (acquired by Bentley Systems), former CEO of Pacific DataVision (now ATEX, NASDAQ: ATEX), and the build...

Most construction disputes don’t start with bad intent — they start with miscommunication, unclear contracts, and broken trust. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite , Rishi sits down with Kenneth Rubinstein — a senior construction attorney, arbitrator, and litigation expert who has handled high-stakes, “bet-the-company” disputes across the industry . With nearly 30 years of experience, Ken br...

What actually goes wrong when construction companies invest in technology? In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite , Rishi sits down with Robert Zimmerman — Construction Tech Executive, host of the ConTech Exec Podcast, and creator of the AI Jobsite Readiness Score™ — to break down the real reasons software fails in construction. Robert has spent 30+ years in the industry, from journeyman carpen...

Most construction companies don’t fail because they’re not working hard. They fail because they don’t know what’s actually happening financially. In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite , we sit down with Stewart Bohrer — The Construction CFO for Subcontractors — who took an unconventional path from BIM, prefab, and operations into finance. We break down why: Most subcontractors don’t know if th...

What happens when you go from working 500,000-volt power lines… to building one of the top podcasts in the trades? In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite , I sit down with Ryan Lucas — a second-generation journeyman lineman turned brand leader and host of the Top 1% Powerline Podcast . Ryan shares hard-earned lessons from 15+ years in the field and how they translate to leadership, finance, and...

In this episode of Finance at the Jobsite , Rishi sits down with Bryce Wisan—Founder of Levvigo, CPA, and construction finance expert with 25+ years of experience—to unpack how contractors can turn accounting into a strategic advantage. Bryce shares why most contractors don’t actually want to talk about accounting—they want to talk about cash flow, profitability, and jobs —and how great finance le...